MIT Election Lab

This post was written by Brian Amos, an assistant professor at Wichita State University.

As political scientists here at the MIT Election Lab, we are really social scientists. We work with many others to understand what’s…

A State Spotlight from the Stanford-MIT Healthy Election Project

A State Spotlight from the Stanford-MIT Healthy Election Project

A State Spotlight from the Stanford-MIT Healthy Election Project

Today’s post was written by Kevin DeLuca, a graduate student at the Harvard Kennedy School and researcher for the Stanford-MIT Healthy…

A State Spotlight from the Stanford-MIT Healthy Election Project

In Episode 3 of our video series Talking Elections, we wanted to take a look at voter education which is an important topic that doesn’t…

What does queuing theory say about managing polling places amid COVID-19?

Data from the Election Assistance Commission

Using county-level residual voting rate and demographic data to see how voting equipment can shape voting equality

MEDSL Founding Director Charles Stewart III interviewed Mara Suttmann-Lea of Connecticut College, Lia Merivaki of Mississippi State, and…

America’s Electorate is Increasingly Polarized Along Partisan Lines About Voting by Mail During the COVID-19 Crisis

Our post today was written by Pia Deshpande, a writer with the MIT Election Lab.

What this Means for November

Police brutality, protests against police brutality, the pandemic, and curfews all shape this year’s election.

Lessons from Wisconsin, North Carolina, and beyond

If COVID-19 is, at least for now, invisible to most Americans, what explains why some are concerned about it, while others are not?

An in-depth look at election administration in 6 states

Data Completeness and the EPI